StrawberryPigtails

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[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Make it three months. It would take at least that long for the loss of their labor to start being felt across the board. Undocumented immigrants are vital in some of the damnest places and their absence would not e particularly noticeable at first.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And this is why I don’t dual boot anymore. Or run Windows anymore for that matter. Learn to play nicely with others please, Microsoft.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Off course! Though I bought the CD and ripped it. Dangerous and Moving was a great album.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what I thought you might try. Answer is, I don't know. I think it would depend on what the UEFI does with the secure boot keys when you disable secure boot. From a security standpoint it would make most sense for it to wipe those keys, but I could be wrong. The easiest way to find out if it would cause a problem would be to try it.

If I understand this article correctly however, Windows only requires that the UEFI be capable of secure boot, not that secure boot be enabled.

I think the first thing I would try is to try installing and booting Windows without secure boot. If that fails, than reinstall, this time with secure boot enabled and leave it enabled. Several other comments here are saying that secure boot in linux is now largely seamless and as it has been several years since I've mucked about with it, I'm inclined to listen to their recommendation.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Should be doable either way, but swapping secure boot on and off may cause problems with Windows in your proposed setup. I would pick one and stick with it. I know Linux is compatible with secure boot, I just never bothered to learn how to work with it. If I remember correctly, every time a change was made to the kernel, the keys would need to be reenrolled. This includes whenever the Nvidia driver’s updated.

Might want to read up on secure boot.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sakaki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Configuring_Secure_Boot

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The last time I had secure boot enabled on any of my systems was several years ago, but yes. At that time you had to enroll the keys both on the initial install and every update. It was such a headache for limited benefits (for me) that I just started disabling secure boot whenever I was setting up a system.

Things might have gotten easier, but I doubt it as he secure boot system is not really under the control of open source developers (for good reason) and the end user can really only choose whether it is enabled or disabled.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Not necessarily, but doing so will make your life alot easier, especially when it comes time to update the drivers.

I really only run 3 addons in Firefox currently. Chrome is the same but without UBlock.

  • UBlock Origin
  • BitWarden
  • Streetpass for Mastodon
[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With used hardware, it very much depends on what the hardware is and what you’re using it for. if you can find something from the last 10 years it’s probably worth it, but I wouldn’t get anything older than that. Power usage is the main concern, as systems have been plenty powerful enough for most applications for sometime. Hardware reliability would be another factor.

When I was looking a couple of months ago, it looked like $200 USD was the sweet spot for used hardware, but at that price point, you could get one of those NUC knockoffs brand new, such as the Beelink N100. It just depends on what you need.

Sometimes it’s an ideological issue. Some distributions don’t ship nonfree drivers, some do, but require you to manually install them, and some have trouble making up their mind. This last is where you get live cds that automatically load the drivers needed for your hardware, but when you actually install, things aren’t working anymore.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Considering how much the tickets cost the few times I was interested in seeing something live, $30,000 worth of tickets isn’t that many tickets. This feels like manufactured outrage to me.

 

A question here recently brought up memories of listening to this song growing up. Long since lost my copy and had to hear it again. Figured some here might get a trip out it.

 

Article may cause a stir, so to avoid a flame war here is the last line in the article.

She was not formally charged for living in the space, police said

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/13155908

What were you listening to in February?

Post your scribbles! :-)

 

This month I've been rereading Halo: Primordium. Good book but just as depressing as I remember. I've also started working my way through the OpenLDAP Admin manual trying to wrap my head around LDAP.

So what have you all been reading? What did you think of it?

 

Reminds me of the web back in the 90’s, before Google.

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